Mayors of places in Pays de la Loire

Jacques Auxiette (3 December 1940 – 10 December 2021) was a French politician, and was the Regional Council President for the Pays de la Loire region in France. Auxiette was president between 2004 and 2015, and was re-elected to the office in the March 2010 council elections. He was a member of the Socialist Party.He was one of the strongest opponents of the reunification of Loire-Atlantique to its historical region, Brittany.

Roland Paulze d'Ivoy de la Poype, (28 July 1920 – 23 October 2012) was a Second World War fighter ace, a member of the Normandie-Niemen fighter group that fought on the Soviet front.
He was also a politician, a pioneering industrialist in the plastics industry and the founder of the Antibes Marineland in 1970.